Green Energy Fell Short When Winter Storm Fern Tested the Grid
By Amanda Prestigiacomo | The Daily Wire
The analysis backs up Trump's recent moves regarding wind energy.
With America’s power grid stressed by a historic winter storm, expensive “green” energy sources like wind and solar proved unreliable.
A new report on power use over the days of Winter Storm Fern, which brought both massive snow accumulation and damaging waves of ice, found that traditional power sources like natural gas, coal, and nuclear provided 80% of U.S. electricity during the storm’s most destructive days. Wind, by contrast, contributed single-digit percentages, and solar was largely unattainable during the coldest and darkest hours.
Data from some 500,000 federal electricity records, analyzed by nonprofit Power the Future, show the ...










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